Melissa Etheridge Quotes

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Melissa Etheridge

Profession : Musician

Birth : May 29, 1961

Love is never wrong.

Melissa Etheridge

I stand before you a totally healthy person.

Melissa Etheridge

Weight isn't a factor in nutritional health.

Melissa Etheridge

It was tough being a single mom. It was tough being in a divorce with children. Very, very hard.

Melissa Etheridge

There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also.

Melissa Etheridge

I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.

Melissa Etheridge

Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.

Melissa Etheridge

There's a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there's this stillness of your own - I got to know myself.

Melissa Etheridge

I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.

Melissa Etheridge

There is no fear when you choose love. The more you choose love, the more love is in your life. It gets easier and easier.

Melissa Etheridge

I'm so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine.

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I'm exploring the maturity, the wisdom that just comes from having gone around the sun 50 times. My experience is, 'Oh, I'm never really going to get it right. I'm never going to get it done. But that's not the point here.' The point is the journey.

Melissa Etheridge

I definitely feel we're moving forward. There's a lot more understanding... there's less fear and we're working on there being less hatred.

Melissa Etheridge

I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity.

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To be completely stripped bare of any image power or my hair. To step onstage and get the response that I got blew any problems I had about self-image out the door.

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Gay people are born everyday. You will never legislate that away.

Melissa Etheridge

When I grew up, there were no songs about gay people.

Melissa Etheridge

There are many plant medicines that are available to us that have a lot of stigma around them that I hope, in the future, our medical community can look at, because I would absolutely go to those alternatives first before I went back to Western medicine.

Melissa Etheridge

Christmas comes during a season when the Earth is in its darkest time. It's a holiday for the family and for everyone.

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Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn't afraid of anything anymore.

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